Contemplation and action
Subtitle: the other monasticism
By: Roberta Gilchrist.
Publisher: Leicester University Press; Distributed exclusively in the USA by St. Martin's Press
Published: 1995
Place of publication: London and New York; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 250
Subjects: Monasteries -- Great Britain -- History; Hospitalers -- Great Britain -- History; Military religious orders -- Great Britain -- History; Monasticism and religious orders for women -- Great Britain -- History -- Middle Ages, 600-1500; Hermits -- Great Britain -- History; Excavations (Archaeology) -- Great Britain; Christian antiquities -- Great Britain; Great Britain -- Antiquities; Great Britain -- Church history
Description: "This book considers the archaeology of 'the other monasticism', a range of religious vocations and associated settlements - hospitals, preceptories of the military orders, monasteries for women and hermitages - that were constant and integral to medieval life, yet have remained on the margins of modern scholarship." "Evidence for the social and religious roles of the monasteries is outlined, together with a consideration of their relationships to lay society and the changing nature of religious mentalities. Archaeological and historical evidence is brought together in an examination of the meaning of monasticism to medieval people. Monastic identities are explored through the connection between material culture and issues such as belief, gender, membership of a monastic order, patronage and a sense of liminality, or otherness."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.